Majesty is one of the Daeva’s great gifts: the ability to make
mortals want to come to them. Even its most basic power, Awe,
is such an effective social tool that some young Daeva don’t even
realize they’re using it. They’ll lock eyes with someone across a
crowded room and just feel a click as they become the mortal’s
whole world. Obfuscate, meanwhile, is a Discipline that the
Daeva can learn only through difficult practice. The benefits
usually run counter to those of Majesty, offering concealment
instead of adoration. Yet, when a vampire learns the Familiar
Stranger, she becomes able to pose as anyone her victims know
and expect.
A certain Daeva south of the California Mission was always
better at hiding out than turning minds. Over time, she fused
her mastery of Obfuscate with her rudimentary (and, she believed,
innate) capacity to Awe mortals. After many hungry and
difficult years, she learned to be recognized as anyone... and
then she learned to be recognized as herself, with the benefits
of Majesty. From there, she was able to pass the effect on to
photographs taken of her. Photographs that could spread her
image and her Awe throughout mortal society, without her
having to interact directly with her future victims.
She created the Picture Perfect Devotion, which allows a vampire
to extend her Awe effect through photographs, and triggers
it once again when the subject meets the vampire face to face.
